Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was one of the greatest poets of the Silver Age of Russian poetry. He died under mysterious circumstances in a Gulag camp in the Far East. We look back at his life to ...

I mentioned in a recent column Eric Griffiths' recommendation of an "incomparable" essay by Osip Mandelstam, "Conversation on Dante," which I was resolved soon to read. This, it turns out, is easy to ...

Osip Mandelstam, one of the greatest Russian poets of the Silver Age, lived and wrote without buckling to the pressure to conform. He died like thousands of his oppressed countrymen – of exhaustion ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. I traveled to the Soviet Union as a co-driver on a school trip with Nicholas Leader, the Russian teacher at the ...

Osip Mandelstam was born in 1891 and spent his childhood and youth in St. Petersburg. A victim of Stalinist repression, he died in 1938 in transit to a remote Siberian concentration camp. Mandelstam ...

A poem about the most beautiful city in the world, and an example of the precise demands of translation The Admiralty In the Northern capital, dusty populus, Sighing, mantles the time’s transparency, ...

Our fractured age’s greatest heroes are a far cry from Achilles. They fight not for glory but freedom, with weapons forged of pure moral steel. Consider the fatalistic courage of the late Russian ...

The cat-and-mouse game between the poet Osip Mandelstam and the Soviet dictator could only end in death. By Eimear McBride One of the most revealing photographs of Osip Mandelstam still in existence ...

The Stalin Epigram Our lives no longer feel ground under them. At ten paces you can’t hear our words. But whenever there’s a snatch of talk it turns to the Kremlin mountaineer, the ten thick worms his ...

When it came to Nadezhda Mandelstam, the scholar Clarence Brown might have put it best: She was a “vinegary, Brechtian, steel-hard woman of great intelligence, limitless courage, no illusions, ...